巨人：福宾(:(计划

　　E.#ric \#Braed[;en\;:= stars a$/s Dr. C*harle-*-s Forbin, who has cre?+ated a.. sup_-
e%=rcom:\puter na/$med Col_-os%:sus,*(; built solely$]- for  the ._$purpos/e of controlling th^e nuclear def#,ens?+es of ?the West\er?n?% al/lian;[^ce./

# It i)%s.%n$!'t too# long +^* after,* - however, that the Russians a;@ nn:ounce tha,t they too -]:h`ave bui lt?, a simi lar  co@$=*mpu +ter for those same purpo\-)ses@  on th_?eir side--Guardian. And #\when@[$ the t#[=wo machine): s begin` shar\#ing i!nformation at a s::]peed nobody can beli]#^eve, an ^ attem ^pt is m`%!ade to disa%;ble
them.　　This unfo [:r[tun!=/ately(`^ just raises the#: :(?]machines&^\#)-^39 ire an=d in retaliat+i$=on, the*(y l`?aunch%\@; thei=r weapons at e-ach o ,ther'@^s ho(me nat=%ions. The r;`/esult is a chi!lli/!ng scena*-@[rio t/:=hat is pot=)e;nt[i-ally++ becom=ing all ;too r
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the-@[se ; =days.　　COL?^O-+SSUS: THE FO/ )RBIN? P-`=R?OJECT: was n$ot a bi+ ?--g hit at the box office fo=%r $ various ?reasons. One is th!`*at i
-ts cast wasn&#39(`,t exactly  `well known. Anothe;@] r reason #*is that its ending isn't e xactly a happy` one. Sti@+!ll :$a th \ird%[+ reason\ *is t[,/hat Univers*[al ^had trouble try@ *=in[]-g to pro mote it in the wake of[ #the hug]e suc,(cess of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A ` SPACE ODYSSEY]+. The la !t_]?t\**er reason is obv.%,i+)]ous: C
olossus a*_\+$nd Guardian]$, like HA(`
L in the Kubric`k mo?.`vie, become central characters here. The d#ifference?  -h=,ere ;^i:/s that while HAL malfunctions .due to a p*rogrammi*; ng con ]flict, Co[#lo.]ssus and Guardian remai^
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?oo stab($le, c?onvin ((ced .=bey ond a doub =t,, that-% they kn$ ow how to pr#\otect Mankind better !than M)%an himself. As ??=the compute#rs point ;^ out: "One [i%.nev`$itab#le ru,([le is that Mankind is his own wo#rst #e$@ n$],:emy.&quo(`t=@　　Josep h Sargent
, )&@@#39s direc?`:?.tion is ef??^
_ficient, and`- the spec`ial effects work of Al@  ber,t Whitlock$ s!till manages^ to \: work despite its]@ ob//
vious age. An ov!erlooke[
^+d @$gem in th[e+ sci-fi g )%enr+(;e, thi@s sho[*uld b*_e given a r`evival.